Memory Dump Analysis Best Practices (Part 2)
We continue with best practices, the previous was SCP. The second best practice is to check the system for additional patterns after the main pattern was found (similar to avoiding Common Mistake 8). For example, in the case of a bug check resulted from NULL pointer dereference or any other exception in some 3rd-party driver code don’t stop but look at all CPUs, processes and threads to find any other patterns such as Spiking Threads, Busy System, and Contention. Inspection of associated thread stack traces might reveal the same module and/or give additional clues to system behaviour prior to the fault.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -